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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt index 3f4380eb28..2691114440 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fast-import.txt @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ fast-forward update, fast-import will skip updating that ref and instead prints a warning message. fast-import will always attempt to update all branch refs, and does not stop on the first failure. -Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but its recommended that +Branch updates can be forced with \--force, but it's recommended that this only be used on an otherwise quiet repository. Using \--force is not necessary for an initial import into an empty repository. @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ is always copied into the identity string at the time it is being created by fast-import. There is no way to specify a different time or timezone. + -This particular format is supplied as its short to implement and +This particular format is supplied as it's short to implement and may be useful to a process that wants to create a new commit right now, without needing to use a working directory or 'git update-index'. @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ quoting or escaping syntax is supported within `<committish>`. Here `<committish>` is any of the following: * The name of an existing branch already in fast-import's internal branch - table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, its treated as a SHA-1 + table. If fast-import doesn't know the name, it's treated as a SHA-1 expression. * A mark reference, `:<idnum>`, where `<idnum>` is the mark number. @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ assigned mark. The mark command is optional here as some frontends have chosen to generate the Git SHA-1 for the blob on their own, and feed that -directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than its worth +directly to `commit`. This is typically more work than it's worth however, as marks are inexpensive to store and easy to use. `data` |